Pritzker family

The Pritzker family is one of America's wealthiest families, and has been near the top of Forbes magazine's "America's Richest Families" list since the magazine began in 1982.

The family is most famous for owning the Hyatt hotel chain, and the Marmon Group, a conglomerate of manufacturing and industrial service companies. Other holdings have included the Superior Bank of Chicago, the TransUnion Credit Bureau and the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines.

Members

Naphtali Pritzker (?)

• Jacob Pritzker (1831-1896)
  • Nicholas Pritzker (1871–1957), Jewish immigrant from Ukraine, founder of Pritzker & Pritzker law firm
    • Harry Pritzker (1893–1957), lawyer
    • A. N. Pritzker (1896–1986), patriarch of family business enterprise
      • Jay Pritzker (1922–99), co-founder of Hyatt & philanthropist
        • Nancy Pritzker (1948–72)
        • Thomas Pritzker (1950–), chief executive of The Pritzker Organization
          • m. Margot Marshall
          • 3 children
        • John A. Pritzker (1953–)
          • m. Lisa Stone
          • 3 children
        • Daniel Pritzker (1959–), founder, guitarist and songwriter for the band Sonia Dada
          • m. Karen Edensworth
          • 5 children
        • Jean (Gigi) Pritzker Pucker (1962–), filmmaker
          • m. Michael Pucker
          • 3 children
      • Robert Pritzker (1926–) Founder of Marmon and Philanthropist; gave $60 million to the Illinois Institute of Technology
        • James N. Pritzker (1950–), Colonel (RET), Illinois Army National Guard, founder of the Pritzker Military Library
          • 3 children
        • Linda Pritzker (1953–), psychoanalyst, political activist
          • 3 children
        • Karen Pritzker (1958–)
          • 4 children
        • Matthew (1982–)
        • Liesel Matthews (1984–), the stage name of actress Liesel Pritzker
      • Donald Pritzker (1932–72), co-founder and President of Hyatt
        • Penny Pritzker (1959–), national finance chair of the Barack Obama presidential campaign; Chairman of Classic Residence by Hyatt; Chairman of Superior Bank
          • 2 children
        • Anthony Pritzker (1961–)
          • 6 children
        • Jay Robert Pritzker, most commonly known as J.B. Pritzker, (1965–), founder of New World Ventures and The Pritzker Group; national co-chairman of the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2008.
          • 2 children
    • Jack Pritzker (1904–79), real estate developer and lawyer
      • m. Rhoda Goldberg (1914–2007)
      • Nicholas J. Pritzker (1944–), Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Hyatt Development Corporation
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Samuel Pritzker (1905-1990)

• Nathan Pritzker (1943-)
  • Joshua Pritzker (1986-)
  • Michael Pritzker (1988-)
• Stephen Pritzker (1947-)
  • Nicole Pritzker (1988-)
• Eleanor Pritzker

  Family fortune

  Members of the Pritkzer family on the Forbes 400 list of "The 400 Richest Americans 2009":

  Rank	Name	Net Worth
  196	Thomas Pritzker	$1.8 billion
  204	Penny Pritzker	$1.7 billion
  220	Anthony Pritzker	$1.6 billion
  220	Jay Robert Pritzker	$1.6 billion
  236	Daniel Pritzker	$1.5 billion
  236	James Pritzker	$1.5 billion
  236	Jean (Gigi) Pritzker	$1.5 billion
  236	John Pritzker	$1.5 billion
  236	Karen Pritzker	$1.5 billion
  236	Linda Pritzker	$1.5 billion
  326	Nicholas J. Pritzker	$1.2 billion

  
  

  Legacy

  • Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago
  • Pritzker Architecture Prize
  • Pritzker Military Library
  • Pritzker Legal Research Center at Northwestern University School of Law
  • Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science and Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Chicago's Millennium Park
  • A. N. Pritzker Elementary School
  • Pritzker College Prep, A Campus of the Noble Network of Charter High Schools
  • Pritzker Family Children's Zoo at the Lincoln Park Zoo

  References

  • Joseph Weber and Lorraine Woellert, The Pritzkers' Empire Trembles, Business Week September 10, 2001
  • David Barboza, Hyatt Hotel Family Will Pay $460 Million in S.& L. Case, New York Times December 11, 2001
  • David Mobert, Breaking the Bank, In These Times November 8, 2002
  • Shane Tritsch, Tremors in the Empire, Chicago Magazine December 2002